Church Leadership

A friend of mine from Syria told me that there are Christians in his country who have divorced their commitment with their Churches. I did not ask him about the reasons for this “divorce”, about which I know the opinion of some brethren; but rather I spoke to him first about God’s freedom in love. He understood that I am not downplaying the gravity of abandoning the Churches or the pain of the internal reasons that are said to be behind most of it. Then I asked him to talk to me about the Christians who had left Syria. He almost killed me when he said: “it is likely that those of them who remain in it today do not exceed the third of those who were there before the war”. This is the ordeal of Lebanon that has been haunting us since the days of the war. I believe that many of the Christians, in Syria and Lebanon, know that each of us is responsible for dealing with negligence, wherever he sees it manifest. For example, if one of us sees that the official in his Church does not care about the service of charity or that he had sold his position to the world, God will not be pleased if he follows him in his neglect. Leadership is where those who love are.